What didn’t occur was the marriage. Peter and MJ were together, they loved each other -- they just didn’t pull the trigger on the wedding day. All the books count, all the stories count -- except in the minds of the people within the Marvel U, Peter and MJ were a couple, not a married couple.
Which seems fine, other than that it doesn't seem to quite mesh with what I've seen online of the story. Isn't there something about Peter and MJ's "special love?" You know--and this is speaking as a married person--it isn't marriage per se that makes love special. You can have a special love without vows or rings ever entering into it. So, if the only thing that's different now is the lack of vows and rings...what, exactly, did Mephisto get out of the deal?
Also... since nothing changed other than the fact of the marriage, does this mean that Peter and MJ have been (horrors!) living in sin for the last twenty years? :P
Not that I'm going to worry about it much, if it solves most of my main problem with the thing. (Although I now have to wonder whether Cap was nagging Spidey and MJ about tying the knot the way he did Luke and Jessica. :))
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After much discussion on this matter with my Significant Other (thankfully not retconned out by Joephisto), we've come to this conclusion:
What Mephisto gets is a Spider-Man who's less heroic. Look at him at the beginning of "Brand New Day". He's gotta be about thirty, living with his aunt and wandering through life as some pathetic man-child who gets his jollies being Spider-Man.
Heck, Joephisto even went so far as to say that he wanted a return to a light-hearted Spidey which, given the source of his origins (deaths of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy, to say nothing of other screwups) seems to me that he's either forgotten the lessons learned there or has decided, again, to be some kind of pathetic man-child.
To say nothing of the fact that if Spidey will make THIS deal, Mephisto might be able to wheedle out another and another and another.
So, in other words, Spidey turns into a choad and Mephisto wins forever.
Quesada is such a tool.
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